Newsweek's Top 100 Books. A Meta-Level List

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  #1
  War and Peace
  by Leo Tolstoy
   (3 Reviews)
  Overall Rank: 35
  357 points
  "Well, Prince, Genoa and Lucca are now no more than private estates of the Bonaparte family."Well, Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the Buonapartes. (Maude/Maude)
  
  

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  #2
  Nineteen Eighty-Four
  by George Orwell
   (34 Reviews)
  Overall Rank: 3
  946 points
  "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."
  
  

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  #3
  Ulysses
  by James Joyce
   (2 Reviews)
  Overall Rank: 4
  925 points
  "Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed."
  
  

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  #4
  Lolita
  by Vladimir Nabokov
   (15 Reviews)
  Overall Rank: 5
  856 points
  "Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palette to tap, at three, on the teeth."
  
  

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  #5
  The Sound and the Fury
  by William Faulkner
   (5 Reviews)
  Overall Rank: 9
  703 points
  "Through the fence, between the curling flower spaces, I could see them hitting."
  
  

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  #6
  Invisible Man
  by Ralph Ellison
   (4 Reviews)
  Overall Rank: 15
  640 points
  "I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids—...
  
  

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  #7
  To the Lighthouse
  by Virginia Woolf
   (3 Reviews)
  Overall Rank: 14
  642 points
  "Yes, of course, if it's fine tomorrow," said Mrs. Ramsay. "But you'll have to be up with the lark," she added.
  
  

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  #8
  The Odyssey
  by Homer
   (4 Reviews)
  Overall Rank: 188
  102 points
  "By now the other warriors, those that had escaped headlong ruin by sea or in battle, were safely home.Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns driven time and again off course, once..."
  
  

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  #9
  Pride and Prejudice
  by Jane Austen
   (13 Reviews)
  Overall Rank: 19
  540 points
  "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
  
  

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  #10
  Commedia
  by Dante Alighieri
   (2 Reviews)
  Overall Rank: 106
  180 points
  "Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita/mi ritrovai per una selva oscura,/chè la diritta via era smarrita.Mildway upon the journey of our life I found myself within a forest dark, For the..."
  
  

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  #11
  The Canterbury Tales
  by Geoffrey Chaucer
   (1 Review)
  Overall Rank: 223
  90 points
  "When the sweet showers of April have pierced/ The drought of March, and pierced it to the root,/ And every vein is bathed in that moisture/ Whose quickening force will engender the flower;/ And..."
  
  

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  #12
  Gulliver's travels
  by Jonathan Swift
   (1 Review)
  Overall Rank: 81
  225 points
  "My father had a small estate in Nottinghamshire; I was the third of five sons."
  
  

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  #13
  Middlemarch
  by George Eliot
   (1 Review)
  Overall Rank: 21
  519 points
  "Who that cares much to know the history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying experiments of Time, has not dwelt, at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not..."
  
  

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  #14
  Things Fall Apart
  by Chinua Achebe
   (2 Reviews)
  Overall Rank: 67
  255 points
  "Okonkwo was well-known throughout the nine villages and even beyond. His fame rested on solid personal achievements. As a young man of eighteen he had brought honour to his village by throwing..."
  
  

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  #15
  The Catcher in the Rye
  by J. D. Salinger
   (21 Reviews)
  Overall Rank: 7
  735 points
  "If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they...
  
  

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  #16
  Gone with the Wind
  by Margaret Mitchell
   (9 Reviews)
  Overall Rank: 16
  606 points
  "Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm, as the Tarleton twins were."
  
  

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  #17
  One Hundred Years of Solitude
  by Gabriel García Márquez
   (9 Reviews)
  Overall Rank: 12
  667 points
  "Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.Muchos años después, frente al pelotón de..."
  
  

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  #18
  The Great Gatsby
  by F. Scott Fitzgerald
   (59 Reviews)
  Overall Rank: 1
  994 points
  "In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since."
  
  

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  #19
  Catch-22
  by Joseph Heller
   (12 Reviews)
  Overall Rank: 6
  823 points
  "It was love at first sight."
  
  

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  #20
  Beloved
  by Toni Morrison
   (4 Reviews)
  Overall Rank: 8
  719 points
  "124 was spiteful. Full of baby's venom. The women in the house knew it and so did the children."
  
  

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  #21
  The Grapes of Wrath
  by John Steinbeck
   (17 Reviews)
  Overall Rank: 2
  963 points
  "To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth."
  
  

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  #22
  Midnight's Children
  by Salman Rushdie
   (0 Reviews)
  Overall Rank: 29
  391 points
  "I was born in the city of Bombay . . . once upon a time."
  
  

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  #23
  Brave New World
  by Aldous Huxley
   (10 Reviews)
  Overall Rank: 13
  664 points
  "A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories."
  
  

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  #24
  Mrs Dalloway
  by Virginia Woolf
   (0 Reviews)
  Overall Rank: 33
  365 points
  "Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself. For Lucy had her work cut out for her. The doors would be taken off their hinges; Rumpelmayer’s men were coming. And then, thought Clarissa..."
  
  

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  #25
  Native Son
  by Richard Wright
   (1 Review)
  Overall Rank: 39
  348 points
  "Brrrrrrriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinng! An alarm clock clanged in the dark and silent room."
  
  

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  #26
  Democracy in America; and Two essays on America
  by Alexis de Tocqueville
   (0 Reviews)
  Overall Rank: 287
  75 points
  
  

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  #27
  On the Origin of Species
  by Charles Darwin
   (0 Reviews)
  Overall Rank: 292
  74 points
  "When on board HMS Beagle, as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the inhabitants of South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past..."
  
  

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  #28
  The Histories
  by Herodotus
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  Overall Rank: 147
  133 points
  "This is the showing forth of the Inquiry of Herodotus of Halicarnassos so that neither the deeds of men may be forgotten by lapse of time, nor the works great and marvellous, which have been..."
  
  

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  #29
  On the Social Contract
  by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
   (0 Reviews)
  Overall Rank: 297
  72 points
  "My purpose is to consider if, in political society, there can be any legitimate and sure principle of government, taking men as they are and laws as they might be."
  
  

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  #30
  Das Kapital
  by Karl Marx
   (0 Reviews)
  Overall Rank: 301
  71 points
  
  

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  #31
  The Prince
  by Niccolò Machiavelli
   (3 Reviews)
  Overall Rank: 303
  70 points
  "All the states, all the dominions under whose authority men have lived in the past and live now have been and are either republics or principalities.It is customary for those who wish to gain the..."
  
  

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  #32
  Confessions
  by Saint Augustine
   (0 Reviews)
  Overall Rank: 312
  69 points
  "You are great, O Lord, and greatly to be praised: great is your power and to your wisdom there is no limit.You are great, O Lord, and very worthy of praise; mighty is your power and your wisdom..."
  
  

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  #33
  Leviathan
  by Thomas Hobbes
   (0 Reviews)
  Overall Rank: 318
  68 points
  "Nature (the ary whereby God hath made and governs the world) is by the art of man, as in many other things, so in this also imitated, that it can make an artificial animal."
  
  

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  #34
  History of the Peloponnesian War
  by Thucydides
   (0 Reviews)
  Overall Rank: 329
  67 points
  "Thucydides the Athenian wrote the history of the war fought between Athens and Sparta, beginning the account at the very outbreak of the war, in the belief that it was going to be a great war and..."
  
  

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  #35
  The Lord of the Rings
  by J. R. R. Tolkien
   (16 Reviews)
  Overall Rank: 11
  691 points
  "When Mr. Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a party of special magnificence, there was much talk and excitement in Hobbiton."
  
  

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  #36
  Winnie-the-Pooh
  by A. A. Milne
   (7 Reviews)
  Overall Rank: 31
  383 points
  "Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin."
  
  

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  #37
  The Chronicles of Narnia
  by C. S. Lewis
   (14 Reviews)
  Overall Rank: 27
  403 points
  "There is a story about something that happened long ago when your grandfather was a child. (From The Magician's Nephew, first in chronological order)Once there were four children whose names were..."
  
  

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  #38
  A Passage to India
  by E. M. Forster
   (0 Reviews)
  Overall Rank: 24
  469 points
  "Except for the Marabar caves--and they are twenty miles off--the city of Chrandrapore presents nothing extraordinary."
  
  

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  #39
  On the Road
  by Jack Kerouac
   (6 Reviews)
  Overall Rank: 18
  543 points
  "I first met Dean not long after my wife and I split up."
  
  

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  #40
  To Kill a Mockingbird
  by Harper Lee
   (28 Reviews)
  Overall Rank: 10
  701 points
  "When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow."
  
  

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  #41
  Bible: King James Version
  by KJV
   (5 Reviews)
  Overall Rank: 124
  155 points
  "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth."In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth.In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.Bibliographical introduction....
  
  

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  #42
  A Clockwork Orange
  by Anthony Burgess
   (3 Reviews)
  Overall Rank: 59
  295 points
  "'What's it going to be then, eh?'"
  
  

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  #43
  Light in August
  by William Faulkner
   (0 Reviews)
  Overall Rank: 99
  188 points
  "Sitting beside the road, watching the wagon mount the hill toward her, Lena thinks, 'I have come from Alabama: a fur piece.'"
  
  

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  #44
  The Souls of Black Folk
  by W. E. B. Du Bois
   (0 Reviews)
  Overall Rank: 368
  57 points
  
  

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  #45
  Wide Sargasso Sea
  by Jean Rhys
   (0 Reviews)
  Overall Rank: 125
  153 points
  "They say when trouble comes close ranks, and so the white people did."
  
  

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  #46
  Madame Bovary
  by Gustave Flaubert
   (3 Reviews)
  Overall Rank: 48
  322 points
  "Nous étions à l'Etude, quand le Proviseur entra suivi d'un "nouveau" habillé en bourgeois et d'un garçon de classe qui portait un grand pupitre.We were in study hall when the headmaster walked in,..."
  
  

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  #47
  Paradise Lost
  by John Milton
   (1 Review)
  Overall Rank: 380
  54 points
  
  

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  #48
  Anna Karenina
  by Leo Tolstoy
   (10 Reviews)
  Overall Rank: 22
  505 points
  "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. (C. Garnett, 1946) and (J. Carmichael, 1960)All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy..."
  
  

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  #49
  Hamlet
  by William Shakespeare
   (2 Reviews)
  Overall Rank: 321
  68 points
  "Act 1, Scene 1 Enter Barnardo and Francisco, two sentinels. BarnardoWho's there?"
  
  

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  #50
  King Lear
  by William Shakespeare
   (1 Review)
  Overall Rank: 396
  51 points
  "I thought the king had more affected the Duke of Albany than Cornwall."
  
  

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  #51
  Othello
  by William Shakespeare
   (2 Reviews)
  Overall Rank: 398
  50 points
  "Never tell me; I take it much unkindly That thou, Iago, who hast had my purse As if the strings were thine, shouldst know of this."
  
  

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  #52
  The Sonnets
  by William Shakespeare
   (0 Reviews)
  Overall Rank: 404
  49 points
  "From fairest creatures we desire increase, That thereby beauty's rose might never die, But as the riper should by time decrease, His tender heir might bear his memory: But thou, contracted to thine..."
  
  

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  #53
  Leaves of Grass
  by Walt Whitman
   (1 Review)
  Overall Rank: 403
  49 points
  
  

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  #54
  Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  by Mark Twain
   (9 Reviews)
  Overall Rank: 66
  263 points
  "You don't know about me, without you have read a book by the name of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," but that ain't no matter.You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The..."
  
  

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  #55
  Kim
  by Rudyard Kipling
   (0 Reviews)
  Overall Rank: 161
  125 points
  "He sat, in defiance of municipal orders, astride the gun Zam-Zammah on her brick platform opposite the old Ajaib-Gher - the Wonder House, as the natives call the Lahore Museum."
  
  

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  #56
  Frankenstein
  by Mary Shelley
   (12 Reviews)
  Overall Rank: 84
  219 points
  "You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings.The event on which this fiction is founded has been..."
  
  

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  #57
  Song of Solomon
  by Toni Morrison
   (1 Review)
  Overall Rank: 70
  250 points
  "The North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance agent promised to fly from Mercy to the other side of Lake Superior at three o'clock."
  
  

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  #58
  One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
  by Ken Kesey
   (5 Reviews)
  Overall Rank: 163
  122 points
  "They're out there. Black boys in white suits up before me to commit sex acts in the hall and get it mopped up before I can catch them."They're out there.
  
  

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  #59
  For Whom the Bell Tolls
  by Ernest Hemingway
   (4 Reviews)
  Overall Rank: 46
  322 points
  "He lay flat on the brown, pine-needled floor of the forest, his chin on his folded arms, and high overhead the wind blew in the tops of the pine trees."
  
  

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  #60
  Slaughterhouse-Five
  by Kurt Vonnegut
   (12 Reviews)
  Overall Rank: 34
  358 points
  "All this happened, more or less."
  
  

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  #61
  Animal Farm
  by George Orwell
   (21 Reviews)
  Overall Rank: 23
  495 points
  "Mr. Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen-houses for the night, but was too drunk to remember to shut the popholes."
  
  

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  #62
  Lord of the Flies
  by William Golding
   (15 Reviews)
  Overall Rank: 20
  537 points
  "The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way toward the lagoon."
  
  

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  #63
  In Cold Blood
  by Truman Capote
   (4 Reviews)
  Overall Rank: 242
  86 points
  "The village of Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas, a lonesome area that other Kansans call 'out there'."
  
  

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  #64
  The Golden Notebook
  by Doris Lessing
   (0 Reviews)
  Overall Rank: 65
  266 points
  "The two women were alone in the London flat."
  
  

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  #65
  In Search of Lost Time
  by Marcel Proust
   (1 Review)
  Overall Rank: 25
  455 points
  "For a long time, I would go to bed early. [Fr., Longtemps, je me suis couche de bonne heure.]"
  
  

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  #66
  The Big Sleep
  by Raymond Chandler
   (0 Reviews)
  Overall Rank: 128
  152 points
  "It was about eleven o'clock in the morning, mid October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in the clearness of the foothills."
  
  

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  #67
  As I Lay Dying
  by William Faulkner
   (3 Reviews)
  Overall Rank: 62
  281 points
  "Jewel and I come up from the field, following the path in single file."
  
  

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  #68
  The Sun Also Rises
  by Ernest Hemingway
   (6 Reviews)
  Overall Rank: 42
  335 points
  "Robert Cohn was once middleweight boxing champion of Princeton."
  
  

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  #69
  I, Claudius
  by Robert Graves
   (1 Review)
  Overall Rank: 129
  151 points
  "I, Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus This-that-and-the-other (for I shall not trouble you yet with all my titles) who was once, and not so long ago either, known to my friends and relatives..."
  
  

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  The Heart is A Lonely Hunter
  by Carson McCullers
   (1 Review)
  Overall Rank: 104
  181 points
  "In the town there were two mutes, and they were always together."
  
  

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  #71
  Sons and Lovers
  by D. H. Lawrence
   (0 Reviews)
  Overall Rank: 77
  232 points
  "The Bottoms" succeeded to "Hell Row."
  
  

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  #72
  All the King's Men
  by Robert Penn Warren
   (0 Reviews)
  Overall Rank: 90
  207 points
  "MASON CITY. To get there you follow Highway 58, going northeast out of the city, and it is a good highway and new. Or was new, that day we went up it."
  
  

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  Go Tell It on the Mountain
  by James Baldwin
   (1 Review)
  Overall Rank: 89
  208 points
  "Everyone had always said that John would be a preacher when he grew up, just like his father."
  
  

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  #74
  Charlotte's Web
  by E. B. White
   (12 Reviews)
  Overall Rank: 75
  236 points
  "Where's Papa going with that ax?" said Fern to her mother as they were setting the table for breakfast."
  
  

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  #75
  Heart of Darkness
  by Joseph Conrad
   (5 Reviews)
  Overall Rank: 32
  382 points
  "The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest. The flood had made, the wind was nearly calm, and being bound down the river, the only thing for it..."
  
  

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  #76
  Night
  by Elie Wiesel
   (1 Review)
  Overall Rank: 501
  25 points
  "They called him Moshe the Beadle, as though he had never had a surname in his life."
  
  

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  #77
  Rabbit, Run
  by John Updike
   (1 Review)
  Overall Rank: 209
  95 points
  "Boys are playing basketball around a telephone pole with a backboard bolted to it. "
  
  

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  The Age of Innocence
  by Edith Wharton
   (1 Review)
  Overall Rank: 60
  292 points
  "On a January evening of the early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music in New York."
  
  

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  Portnoy's Complaint
  by Philip Roth
   (2 Reviews)
  Overall Rank: 299
  71 points
  "She was so deeply imbedded in my consciousness that for the first year of school I seemed to have believed that each of my teachers was my mother in disguise."
  
  

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  An American Tragedy
  by Theodore Dreiser
   (1 Review)
  Overall Rank: 108
  179 points
  "Dusk - of a summer night."
  
  

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  #81
  The Day of the Locust
  by Nathanael West
   (0 Reviews)
  Overall Rank: 199
  98 points
  "Around quitting time, Tod Hackett heard a great din on the road outside his office."
  
  

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  #82
  Tropic of Cancer
  by Henry Miller
   (2 Reviews)
  Overall Rank: 130
  151 points
  "I am living at the Villa Borghese."
  
  

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  #83
  The Maltese Falcon
  by Dashiell Hammett
   (1 Review)
  Overall Rank: 248
  85 points
  "Samuel Spade's jaw was long and bony, his chin a jutting v under the more flexible v of his mouth."
  
  

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  #84
  His Dark Materials
  by Philip Pullman
   (4 Reviews)
  Overall Rank: 63
  277 points
  "Lyra and her daemon moved through the darkening hall, taking care to keep to one side, out of sight of the kitchen. (Northern lights)Will tugged at his mother's hand and said, "Come on, come on..."..."
  
  

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  #85
  Death Comes for the Archbishop
  by Willa Cather
   (0 Reviews)
  Overall Rank: 323
  68 points
  "One summer evening in the year 1848, three Cardinals and a missionary Bishop from America were dining together in the gardens of a villa in the Sabine hills, overlooking Rome."
  
  

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  #86
  The Interpretation of Dreams
  by Sigmund Freud
   (0 Reviews)
  Overall Rank: 545
  15 points
  
  

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  #87
  The Education of Henry Adams
  by Henry Adams
   (0 Reviews)
  Overall Rank: 555
  14 points
  "Under the shadow of Boston State House, turning its back on the house of John Hancock, the little passage called Hancock Avenue runs, or ran, from Beacon Street, skirting the State House grounds,..."
  
  

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  #88
  Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung
  by Mao Tse-Tung
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